Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations Relative to the Ancient Geographical Divisions, the Pure System of Primeval Theology, the Grand Code of Civil Laws, the Original Form of Government, the Widely-extended Commerce, and the Various Profound Literature, of Hindostan: Compared, Throughout, with the Religion, Laws, Government, and Literature, of Persia, Egypt, and Greece, the Whole Intended as Introductory to The History of Hindostan, Upon a Comprehensive Scale, Volume 2C. & W. Galabin, 1800 - India |
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... also enumerated , which they underwent in their progrefs through the CHAR ASHERUM , OF FOUR DEGREES of probation ; tortures which they bore with a conftancy and with a forti- tude worthy of a more enlightened religion and more animating ...
... also enumerated , which they underwent in their progrefs through the CHAR ASHERUM , OF FOUR DEGREES of probation ; tortures which they bore with a conftancy and with a forti- tude worthy of a more enlightened religion and more animating ...
Page 41
... edit . 1724. See also Dr. Hyde , Hift . Vet . Relig . Perf . cap . xxvi . p . 330. Edit . Oxon . 1760 . • Prideaux's Connections , vol . i . p . 224 . + Gen. xxi . verse 23 . braided , by the prophets , with burning in- cenfe [ 41 ]
... edit . 1724. See also Dr. Hyde , Hift . Vet . Relig . Perf . cap . xxvi . p . 330. Edit . Oxon . 1760 . • Prideaux's Connections , vol . i . p . 224 . + Gen. xxi . verse 23 . braided , by the prophets , with burning in- cenfe [ 41 ]
Page 59
... also to be taken in a myftic fig- nification . " The horse , so facrificed , is in the place of the facrificer , bears his fins with him into the wilderness into which he is turned adrift , ( for , from this particular inftance , it ...
... also to be taken in a myftic fig- nification . " The horse , so facrificed , is in the place of the facrificer , bears his fins with him into the wilderness into which he is turned adrift , ( for , from this particular inftance , it ...
Page 60
... Paris , 1719. See also a similar sculpture , engraved in Dr. Hyde's first plate , with other curious aftronomical appendages , which will be noticed hereafter . cient Perfians , which will ftill more immedi- ately elucidate [ 60 ]
... Paris , 1719. See also a similar sculpture , engraved in Dr. Hyde's first plate , with other curious aftronomical appendages , which will be noticed hereafter . cient Perfians , which will ftill more immedi- ately elucidate [ 60 ]
Page 69
... also believed in the existence of beings of a very contrary nature and difpofition , or xanodaiμoves , whose conftant employment and whofe in- fernal delight it was to derange the beautiful order and harmony of nature , and to spread ...
... also believed in the existence of beings of a very contrary nature and difpofition , or xanodaiμoves , whose conftant employment and whofe in- fernal delight it was to derange the beautiful order and harmony of nature , and to spread ...
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